After months of imagining the ocean, J. Michael Fay's crew reaches the beach at 12:39 p.m. on day 456 of the expedition. Fay said that going to the Atlantic was as exotic for the Baka Pygmies [including Jean-Jacques, right] as it would be for an American to go to Saturn. This photograph originally appeared in the August 2001 issue of National Geographic magazine.

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